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See what Instagram covers on your Reel

Drop in your Reel and see it under Instagram’s buttons, caption and audio. It all happens in your browser, so nothing gets uploaded

Drop your video or image here

or click to choose one. A vertical MP4, MOV or WebM, or a PNG or JPG of a frame

Six apps at once

TikTok, Reels, Shorts, Stories, Facebook Reels and Snapchat side by side

Nothing is uploaded

Your video opens in your browser and stays on your computer

Templates to download

Transparent 1080 × 1920 PNGs to lay over your edit

No video at hand?

See how the check works on an example, or take a template for your editor.

Safe zone templates, 1080 × 1920 PNG

How it works

  1. 1

    Drop in your video

    A vertical MP4, MOV or WebM, or a PNG of a frame. It opens right away, because it isn’t uploaded anywhere

  2. 2

    See it as on Reels

    Your Reel plays under Instagram’s header, buttons, caption and audio, with the covered parts shaded. Check Stories and Facebook Reels in the same place

  3. 3

    Fix it, or take the template

    Download the Reels template for your editor, or save the frame with the zones marked to send to whoever edits

Instagram Reels safe zone checker and template

Questions people ask

On a 1080 × 1920 Reel, the header takes the top 220 px, the buttons about 160 px on the right from 1220 px down, and the username, caption and audio the bottom 370 px left of them. For ads Meta asks for more: the top 14% (269 px), the bottom 35% (672 px) and 6% (65 px) on each side.
Yes, Stories only have a strip at the top and the reply box at the bottom, with no buttons down the side. A Reel that fits its safe zone also fits Stories.
No. Your browser opens it right on your computer and draws the zones over it, so nothing is sent anywhere. It works for unreleased videos and client work too.
Download the PNG, put it on the top track over your video in CapCut, Premiere Pro, Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve, and keep your text inside the dashed line. Hide or delete it before you export.
Yes. Meta gives Reels on Facebook and Instagram the same margins, so one template covers both.
The shaded parts follow where each app puts its interface on an ordinary post: the tabs, the column of buttons and the caption, so the safe zone flows around them rather than being one box. Next to each app you also get its own numbers for ads (TikTok’s safe zone file, Meta’s guide for Reels and Stories, Google’s for Shorts, Snapchat’s ad specs), which ask for more room because ads add a label and a button.
Yes. No account, no watermark on the templates, and no limit on how many videos you check.

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